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l| VOL XLV NO. 74 ' NEWBERRY, S. P.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1908. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR
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* ELKS' CHAHITY BAZAAR. -<
Automobile Parade.
Mr. Horinan Wright lias very kind
|f ly offered to arrange an automobile
| parade, the cars being decorated in
the Elks colors, purple and white
I Ho desires that very one owning a
| car take part, and hopes to have sev|
oral cars from out of town to partiSf
cipate.
The Elks desire to thank the ladies
who.have mailed the bazaar letter*
given them, and it can be said in
tMs connection that they are having
fino results. The next issue will give
a complete list, of the handiwork that
the ladies have donated. The Elks
will be glad to receive something
from anybody who feels so disposed
to help out this good cause.
the Elks desire to thank those merchants
who have so kindly given a
list of houses, from whom they purchase
goods, asking contributions for
the Elks' Bazaar, which will be held
some time in October. Those merchants
who have not been asked for a
I list up to this time, will he called on
I during this week and it is trusted
\ they will see fit to grant same. Below
is a list of goods already received
on letters sent out.
Ewart-Perry Co.?Maxim , hat,
Cabinet hat, pair trousers, 44 shirts,
pair trousers, pair shoes, cash $2.00,
pair trousers, fancy vest, two pairs
silk pajamas, suit clothes, three pairs
trousers, one suit clot'hes.
Daniels & Williamson?Two jewel
boxes.
Summer Bros.?Suit clothes, overcoat,
suit clothes, five pairs shoes,
six "Eclipse" shirts, suit clothes,
rain coat, pair trousers, four dozen
neck wear, carving set, suit clothes,
Gillette razor, 30 pounds teas, pair
shoes, stiil clothes, Stetson hat.
Clary Bros.? Shipment sweet
crackers.
A. IT. Montieth & Co.?Five pounds
Brown's Log Cabin, Cartoon Refined
tobacco, Cartoon Prince Albert tobacco,
box cigars, 10 pounds Duke's
Mixture, box cigars, box toabceo cigarettes,
25 pounds Pride Reidsville,
five pounds Old English Curve Cut,
one pound New English Curve Cut.
Newberry Hardware Co.?Newel
post, keg 10D wire nails.
J. W. Kiblcr & Co.?Case A. & H.
soda, cash $5.00, cash $5.00, five
pounds Ogburn's choice, 15 pounds
Rich & Waxey, eight sacks Flour-Supreme,
two cases Parrot & Monkey
baking powder, TOO Havana cigars,
two dozen Blue Ribbon extracts, shipment
Blue Ribbon candy, case Wesson
Cooking Oil, fi sacks Capitola
flower, shipment paper.
Shelley & Summer.?Carrol smoking
set, Carrol Towel case. Elk water
set, pair bronze statues, bedside
table, stove, rug, rocker, mirror 1G-20,
T2 inch cut glass bowl, chiffonier .
G. S. Mower Co?Lady's hat.
Epting & Werts?Six tables.
E. M. Evans & Co.?Shipment
fancy groceries, pair shoes, box Red
Eyo tobacco.
Wm. Johnson?Set Atkins hand
saws.
- Jas. Mimnaugh?Lady's hat.
Newberry Electric Co.?Electric
portable, newel light.
Joe. Mann?One dozen show knit
socks.
S. B. Jones?Six pounds Blankc's
coffee, 10 pounds crackers.
Gilder & Weeks?One dozen International
Stock Food, shipment Nuunally's
candy.
W. K. Pel lui m & Son?20 boxes
Whittemore polishes, shipment Pratts
Food, case Mariehino cherries, 12m
paper bags. No. 2 cooking oil stove,
two cases paints, electric portable, box
malted milk, two Mcrsehanm pipes,
half dozen tooth brushes, three boxes
Spearmint gum, ease white grape
juice, six bottles Antiseptic wash,
one dozen Euthymol paste, one dozen
Euthymol cream, one dozen Euthymol
Dentifrice, box Menneus talcum,
shipment Warn polos antiseptic solution,
one case Harris carbonated water,
three cases Harris litliia water.
Boyd & Lane?100 pounds snip
1 ,
* ment, two boxes Kola Pepsin gum,
* 10 pounds crackers, shipment fancy
' crackers, 16 sack Pinnacle" flour,
* 20,000 bazaar bags, two rolls 12 inch
* paper, case Heinz assorted condiments,
10 1-pound cans Morara coffee, two
4-pound cans Morara coffee, 30
' 1-pound cans Duchess coffee, one dozt
en handy enamel brooms.
R. D.. Smith??-Three cases Glenn
1 Springs water, one case coffees and
teas.
Ladies Helping.
The bazaar managers wish to thank
those ladies who have mailed out the
* circular letters given them. If there
1 are any ladies, who desire to help by
' mailing these letters, kindly call at
! W. E. Pelham & Son, where C. P.
Pelham will give you as many as can
be used. The Elks will glndly receive
1 all contributions of any description,
which may be donated by the ladies
of Newberry. 1
. Senator Johnstone Amused.
Mr. Alan Johnstone, nominee to '
the State_senate from Newberry conn- '
ty, was in tlie city yesterday for a
few hours on business and received
the congratulations of his many
friends on his recent victory. Mr.
J<;ihnstone related with much amuse- i
ment tlie combination on senatorship '
and governor which several endeavored
to work against him.
Editorials trom the Stale on tlie
situation were copied and every effort
was made to arouse prejudice against
him. Tt failed, however, and Mr.
Johnstone believes that but for the '
mins which prevented a full vote 1
from being turned out Ansel would '
have carried the county easily.?Tlie
Columbia State. <
We had hoped that since the election
is over and the result declared '
and no one protesting thai the mat- '
tor would end. There is no doubt that '
it was a great victory which Mr. John- 1
stone achieved and lie has a right to
be proud ol' it hut he ought to stale 1
the facts when he talks about it. No .'
editorials from the Columbia St ate *
were ever copied unless Mr. John- (
stone copied them on the typewriter. 1
And but for the effort of Mr. Johnstone
and his friends to make it ap- !
pear that there was a combination in '
the governor's and senate races as i
against him the result would very '
probably have been different. There }
was no combination. All that Mr. (
An 11 had to say was said on the
stump in Mr. Johnstone's presence. 1
Mr. Anil has not complained, and is i
not complaining, but after the elec- i
tion is over he does not like to see a I
misstatement of the facts.
THE PESTIFEROUS RAT. |
? ,
Man at Last Begins to Recognize |
Most Dangerous Enemy. ]
Unless an international Pied Piper ]
of Hamlin can be found to lead all ,
the rats into the sea, the entire human
race may become their victim.
The high authority of a noted \
French scientist, I)r. R. Calmette of
Paris, backs this assertion.
The increasing number of rats, the
marvelous hardihood with which
they survive long journeys, their
pernicious and perilous tendency to
carry disease are all given as reasons
for the universal warfare now planned
on rodents. 1
ft will not be with the dulcet 1
strains of a piper that the rodents '
will be lured to their doom as on an- ^
other occasion noted in history.
Science is practical, and believes that 1
poison properly administered is a '
j good deal more efficacious than music '
to piper out a pest.
The offering of bounties on rat '
j tails, the adoption of methods to (
i keep them from traveling from point '
to point on ships and railroad cars. '
and the cmploymvnt of professional
rat killers all over the world, arc i
j some of the .methods by which the i
j pests will be wiped out.
; It is now becoming nothing un- i
I common for cities to inaugurate rat
1 killing campaigns as a means of put- |
i ling an end to plagues. .
j The ease of Port of Spain is an exI
cclleut instance. Plague broke out
j and extended in spite of efforts to
j check it. Then exports fell on the '
idea that rats were carrying the in-'
feet ion from place to place.
Rat killing on a wholesale scalc
was ordered, and i 11 a conple of weeks
the work bore such excellent fruit
that no new cases were reported.
It is to be distinctly understood
that not all rats are harmful. Every
country has certain species which do
not damage, but in many cases have
a certain utility.
1 lie rat that makes the trouble is
the migratory one, otherwise known
as the sewer rat, which has been
evolved by civilization, and follows
man wherever he may go.
Hals of the harmless breed have
been known ever since history began
lo take a record of things, but
the dangerous sewer rat is a distinctly
modern evolution, whose history
cannot he traced back for more than
three centuries.
L'liat 1100 years of activity is a record
of terrible misdeeds, and the
amount of property destroyed by the
sewer rat in that time and fhe number
ot lives taken through the spreading
o| disease lias probably made the
ra.t a tar more terrible destroyer than
all the wart a re of the same period.
It is as a native of Persia and Fast
India that the migratory rat first
U'ets a place in history's pages, and
it is not until the eighteenth century
that he makes his debut in Europe.
The rat got a good start in Europe
and throve immensely for a
time, but then came a widespread
famine.
To a large degree that rat had
been responsible for the wasting of
the food sources, for he had in his
irreed devoured the props of the
field, and his loulness had spread
tlisease among the cattle.
Having spoiled one favorite
liannt. the rat Hegnn to spread all
iver the world. The famous crossing
of the Volga in 1727 is an inci?
lent thoroughly authenticated.
Millions of the rats swain over tlio
river into Furope. Twenty-three
fears later they made their appearance
in Prussia, and three years latsr
thi' French kingdom was made
lie unwelcome host of the rodents.
kveu at the early stage Paris was
irouscd to the dangers of the rat invasion
and met the newcomers with
i determined warfare. Within a
week more than 10,000 rats were
'lain, hut still they kept, coming in
muni less numbers.
I lie I nited States was long exempt
from the visitations of the sewer
at, which seems to withhold his vists
till cities have grown to the size
hat there will be ample shelter ami
ibundant food.
It was about the time thai the
United States had ended the Civil
>\ar of. 18f)l-(),) that the rat decided
:o become an American citizen. He
lad to make a long trip across the
H'can, but that, presented no problem,
for the rodent, is as skillful in the
vater as on land.
The docking of ships at the wharf
s a favorite time for him to embark,
mt even it a ship lays out at anchor
x quarter of a mile it is by no means
safe from taking on unwelcome passengers.
Tn such eases Mr. Hat takes ad vanage
of his skill as a swimmer, makes
lis way out to the boat, climbs
swiftly up the anchor chains and gets
nto the hold, the operation being
performed so swiftly under cover of
light that not often are sailors able
o catch the intruder.
Along the coast and in various sea>orts
the rat made his appearance in
lie 1'nited States in 180."). It took
live years to get out as far west as
Missouri. In ten years he had made
lis way lo the coast, and hundreds
>1 thousands of his kind undoubtedly
met death in the San Francisco
imrthquake and fire.
Now the rat has completed his dominion
of'the North American continent,
and stretches over it all the
way from Panama to the permanent
ice bell.
The outlying islands of the new
world have been a favorite /orking
place for the rodent, and there they
have wrought almost incredible devastation.
In the West Indies, in
the Azores and in the Cape Verde
islands hundreds of thousands of
dollars' worth of coffee, banana, su
gar and orange plantations are fi
! ing a victim to the rapacity of
; rat.
; One island is instanced that v
pnoe completely covered with r
grass, which kept in good condit
all the year around three thousu
cattle. Although the island is hal
i mile from the mainland the day ea
when the rats picked it out as
i suitable place for pitching their tei
By swimming they reached the
land and took possession. That v
fifteen years ago. Today there
not a blade of grass left on the
land. A pair of rabbits could 1
find nourishment on what was 01
an ideal stretch of grazing land
The whole island lias been so a!)
lately honeycombed by the rats tl
today it cannot be reclaimed by <
tivation. There it lays in the ocei
useless, an eyesore, a sample of wl
man's foe, I lie rat, can achieve
the way of destruction.
The rat will eat anything. On i
of the Channel islands it was kno
that an army of rats had th
home. Curiosity was aroused as
what they lived on, for the isla
had been stripped clear of even
blade of grass.
A scientist made an examinnti
j and dug out the holes of a ntunl
t of rats. To his amazement he fon
! in them crabs?live crabs! Tl
j had not come of their own will, I
.each crustacean had legs cut off.
Investigation showed that the w
rats were in (lie habit of doing th
crabbing at low tide. To make si
thai I lie crab would do no harm,
was swiftly deprived of his chn
Then dragged to Hie hole of the r
the crab was a food supply to
drawn on whenever needed.
The damage that rats do to t
cargoes of ships and in warehom
j has been estimated at tens of milliu
j of dollars. I{:it insurance has beooi
a necessity of business since ll
I rodent got a hold in this country,
I Wats scratching matches a
j starting them into flame, rats m<
: in?? around greasy waste rags a
causing spontaneous combustion
I he explanation of many a inysti
ions fire.
J There is hardly anything that
J rat will not eat from meat and po
try to hark of young trees.
Ducks, chickens and other sm
fowl fall a victim to the rat, bei
killed by a grip on the t'hroal by t
sharp teeth of the ugly rodent. 1
tacks on children and old perse
are often reported, the rat seemi
to know by instinct where it c
most safely make an attack.
Cities all over tiie world ha
learned the terrible lesson of h<
rats can carry plagues, and when
is considered that within two yei
a single ordinary pair <?f rats w
multiply to 1 ,f?rt(> rats, it will be se
how many of these disease carrii
are constantly being loosed on t
world.
The situation has indeed resolv
itself into a matter of destroying t
rat or being destroyed by him.
Rochester Democrat.
Decoivera.
There is an old fellow who lives
fa "dry" New England town who li
a very poor opinion of New York,
which metropolis he recently made
visit. It may be remarked in passi
that the old gentleman is one of t
pillars of the church in his native v
lage. Upon his return home he .<
for some time upon a sugar barrel
i the grocery and then suddenly bin
out:
"Them fellers down to New Y?i
lis as bad as thieves! Cheat your e;
'teeth out 'fore you know it!"
| "Gosh, Hiram! You don't mean
J say you got buncoed at your age
j the storekeeper demanded, droppi
| the nail tongs.
"Yes, I do, too!" was the am.
reply. "1 went to a sody water foi
! tain an' asked the feller for his b
sarsyaprilla an' give him the regu
I wink."
"Well?"
"Well, by heck, I got it!" was I
disgusted reply.
Iieinforced concrete has been fou
successful as a facing for wood le1
banks on the lower Mississippi.
till- PERUVIAN GUANO. (T
the ?
Careless Methods Arc Responsible T
vas For Rapid Exhaustion.
ich
ion To t'he people of Peru the piano inmd
dustrv is of the highest importance, tr
f a Not only has guano a great money <>
me value for pu<r|K>scs of exjiort, hut it is tli
, a ?absolutely essention to tlie agriculture er
it$. ?f the country. The destruction of iui
i?. the industry would he a public calam- A
/as ity. Hi
is H.V not a few people it is supposed en
is- Ihjit |he aecumuliitions of guano in mi
lot Peru are something like eoal dejiosits
1Ce i" that they represent the very gra- f?
dual aeenmiilations 4?1" a vast amount on
so- oI time and that their deposition is
int ,mw an end. so
n 1- I'his is not the ease, since guano jp
ttn, >s being deposited today just as for- ju
lat aierly, but in mueli less ipiantity than sv
in formerly, since the birds which pro- ca
dure it are far less numerous than hi
me they used to lie. On the other hand ex
vvn .unano produeed today is valual)le sh
eir ?perhaps even more valuable than g|,
to that deposited years ago.
ud IIk1 deposits ol old guano are being to
a rapidly (exhausted, and when these are sa
exhausted, there will remain only the tli
on annual product, which under present co
)er conditions is cerlain to grow less and
nd less. I hi* is true because the birds w
ley that produce il arc wholly disregard- sli
Tor ed, lor the contractors who collect I he o|
gaano do so without the slightest ref- So
ilv erence to the birds on which the sup- |>,
eir pl.v depends, driving them from I heir )?
ire nesting places and destroying the eggs .t
he and young. The whole subject lias }|()
vs. \ been carefully studied by Senor Lar- tx
at, '"a hurey Correa, who recently suhmitbe
ted a full reporl to (he Peruvian
government. 11
' e The 'wo principal birds which de- ,,,,
<es posit litis valnalih* product are a cor- lm
ins Morant and a pelican, and these birds \y
me spend the greater pari of their time j],
lat during the whole year on the nesting ,
ground, unless frightened awav hv v-|(
nd man. To secure the best results from |,M
>\ - I licit presence lltey should he etieour- S(.
ltd aued to remain on these grounds, and f;,
is inslc-'d of beinu treated as wild ani- |,]
er- inals whose iiselul product men size jt,
and carry away, lltey should be treata
ed as domestic animals, engaged in sti
ul- useful labor and producing a crop j'n
('? the harvestin,u of which the highest lll(
all intelligence should he devoted. w\
I he birds should not he driven away il,
he Iroin their nesting grounds. The pres- v?i
*t- enl tendency to a decrease in tunn- it
uis hers could be <die(d<ed. Protection In
"U will result in a great increase, and ar
an sn(.|, increase will mean the** addition m
to Peru's dollars' worth of guano each III
ive year. KveryMiing should be done to tb
dw increase the number of birds, for the
it greater the number of the birds the
irs greater the amount of the guano profill
dueed. Action should be taken at
ten once, for the pelican, I he more useful
ns of these two birds, is gradually dis- J.
lie appearing.
It. is necessary to watch the coned
tractors who remove the guano from
he the islands and see that they do it
-- with due regard to the safety of the J!
birds and the future supply of the
product. It would be well also to
close each of the various guano isin
lands in rotation for a term of years,
iaH thus leaving the birds on the different M
to islands unmolested for periods of
( ft years as long as possible. A great n*
ng S'?P VillK;0 has been made in rehe
r'M,t years by establishing a closed M
'il- s<,asnn for the islands, during which
<at I"' worked; but this f<]
at mft:,s,"e after nil, only a palliative. (?]
rs| P does not strike at the root, of the
evil.
. 11
(J.|{ j I he agriculture ol Peru is dcpcmlk.pJ<?)l
?ii the supply of guano. The de-j ,
, ntands of (he export trade are insa- ' '
j liable. I'lte time is coming when both !
I these demands cannot be satisfied. It :
^ | is I?i -? 1 > lime tlint a >troiur effort shall ] '''
" j be made lo increase the supply, and |
Mltis can only he done by protecting!
' j t' le breeding grounds of lite birds.? U
. 1* opcsl and Slreain. A
esl
lnrj ?
1 I he stream of blood Jeaving the
, human heart covers a distance equal ,,
llJt, ' to 01,000 miles each year. ^
nd j France produces the most wine in w
/e? the world, 1,710,900,000 gallons a fi
\ year. \
HE ADVENTUROUS ENGINEER.
ho Third Man in the Great Army of
World Conquerors.
In the order of conquest (lie conacting
engineer is but the third man
i the spot?first- the missionary;
ien the soldier; then thy contracting
igineer. After that come tho orditry
mortals known as imputation,
nd only by the previous efforts of
esc three and over their white bones
n the world's population and comiM'ce
proceed.
lie learns to take .'10 miles a day on
ot as a mere constitutional, to sleep
i the ground, to steer by the sun, to
less his altitude by the trees, to
use the eharactcristics of the coun\
he journeys in as a sportsman
dges a horse. He must ride and
>*im (in water or quicksand, as the
se may be), and not be afraid of
gh places <>r deep tunnels. He must
plore trcacluvrous rivers in an egg*dl
ot a boat and not miss a sine
tealure which he passes nor turn
> missing himself, lie is supposed
be able to get ashore somehow in
fet\ when rolled out of a boat in
e heavy breakers of an unknown
asl.
I have met more than one of hint
ho had fought cannibals; so 111a!
M"hl. no doubt, be put down as om>
his accomplishments Joo. And
metiines lie has to rccovcr from a
oken leg or a fever with nobody
il a supers! iI ions ("holo woman for
nurse and a fragrant mud hut for a
spitill and goodness knows who for
doctor.
All the while he is roaming over
d learning the planet in its natural
igni I icence, he is studying how to
ike it. possibly not so magnificent,
it- vastly more convenient to live in.
here you sweep gracefully round
e curve on the cliff ami hang for
moment in the mid-air on the great
el cantilever and catch a flashing
>k at what the guide book calls it-,
lenlilic marvel, you will |)(. making
' better lime than I lie fellow who
iisled out | he curve and climbed by
lies down one side of | |,c gorge
"M ' he other leaving n string of
ne piers behind In n ; t,l fo- co
rl ;""1 ? yon will be |r,._
['iidouslv more fortuiiale. but you
ill never see |.in> region as he saw
when lie was hewing his way ami
?ur way through it, ?or ever knew
as lie did when he lived in a little
il on I lie ledges and watched his
my working and heard the fa in I;
ise ot his machine.rv drifting down
e weird, lonesome valley, with (he
in smoke ot his donkey boilers.
Advertised Letters.
Fidlers remaining in the postofiiec
Newberry. S. C.,' for week endiii"
!|>l. r>, 1008.
Mr. W. A. Andrews.
Miss Alice Bishop, !<'. S. Brown (2)
La u sou I towers, Miss Maggie Bufr,
Mrs. Mary Liza Butler, Mr. J.
at Blum.
Mfr. I{. ( . C aldwell, Mr, Washin
wolic, Miss Ethel Counts, Mr. W.
(olinan, Mr. ,1. W. Cromer, Mr.
ary A. Council.
Miss Mondie Davis, Ida L. C, Dens.
Miss Ollie Mae Fallow, Furniluro
fg. Co.
Mr. Henry Cullman, Maggie K.
lenn, Mr. H. <Cordon, Miss Lulu
Ivmp.
Mr. Lawson Hair. Mr. M. C.
?;it It.
Rev. .1. ( . Jackson, Mr. Daniel
ickson.
Mr. Levi Kilder.
Mr. \\. I'. Leaphardt, Mr. Farrice
ng, Mr. A. M. Long.
Mr. W. A. Miller. Mrs. Klla Means.
Anlone Wcyhenl, I. Kicker, \\r. M.
ice, Mrs. Lucy li-odgers, Mrs.
manda Kodger-.
Mr. .Ininn Sea se, Mr. (J. F. Smith,
r. ,1. W. Sliroul.
Mr. 10. T. Worts, Miss Ceorgiaua
'illiams, Miss Mary Wood, Miss
una Young.
All person calling for these letters
ill please say that they were adverted.
C. J. Pureell, P. M.